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Private In-Home and Online HSPT Tutoring in Indianapolis, IN

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If you have a student preparing for the High School Placement Test for admission into a private or parochial school, Varsity Tutors may help you find an expert HSPT tutor in Indianapolis, IN, to help your child reach their maximum potential. Taken in the spring or fall of the 8th grade, this test contains 300 questions and may be quite overwhelming. Let an experienced tutor guide your child through a study program specific to their needs to prepare them for test day.

If you're concerned about your student's grasp of the many grammar and punctuation rules, let our educational directors connect you with a tutor in Indianapolis today. After assessing your student's problem areas, their tutor may work with their strengths and weaknesses to best develop their knowledge and get them some assistance for achieving their goal score.

Perhaps it's algebra and geometry that your student needs additional help with. An expert HSPT tutor that Varsity Tutors may connect you with in Indianapolis may help your child be confident on exam day. They bring real-world examples and illustrations to teach problem-solving and comparisons in a way that's easy to learn and retain. They may also bring practice tests to each tutoring session so your child may become acquainted with how the test is administered.

An experienced HSPT tutor in Indianapolis, IN, may present your student with multiple teaching approaches until they find the one that works best. In a setting free of distractions and suitable for learning, they may divide each subject into easy-to-learn parts until your child feels confident in the basic concepts of reading, math, and reasoning. They offer one-on-one learning sessions at a time and place convenient to your schedule, whether that's your home, a place in town such as the Tiny House Treats Ice Cream Parlor, or online via our live learning portal. Working face-to-face with a tutor may give your child the opportunity to receive the assistance and immediate feedback they need to feel confident in their abilities.

Your child's knowledgeable tutor may show your student that the HSPT is not as scary as they may think. Being very skilled test-takers themselves, tutors explain the importance of pacing and moving steadily through one question at a time. With the assistance of the tutor our educational directors help you find, your student may not only gain the knowledge to answer problems correctly, but may also have the self-esteem needed to answer those of which they are less certain.

Recent Tutoring Session Reviews

"Today, armed with the prep book, the students finished up the diagnostics in Reading, Mathematics, and Language. We went over the results, briefly discussing specific strategies (like 'choosing numbers' and 'backsolving' in math, and identifying the question types in Reading) and writing them down, so that they could get a broad sense of these sections. Then, we went back to the beginning with Verbal Skills, covering all the questions types and specific step-by-step approaches to solving them. They work very well together and are both very open and receptive to new strategies, and I can see progress already."

"We did an overview of the placement exam (format, question types, how the exam is scored). We then started with the verbal section and covered all the question types. We discussed vocabulary and decided that any unfamiliar words in any of the practice portions or tests should be made into flashcards and reviewed. We went over the reading comprehension and practiced the new strategy of not reading the whole selection, but reading the first sentence of each paragraph to understand the main points. We finished with language arts and reviewed punctuation, sentence structure, grammar, and spelling. The student does well in the reading comprehension and the verbal section but has some difficulty with the language arts section. We spent the rest of the time doing practice problems. I left him with a diagnostic exam to complete before we meet again next week."

"The student had a successful session and covered a lot of material. She is on her last few root word flashcards to learn and has significantly improved her vocabulary. She studied the Song of Hiawatha narrative poem and compared it to other poetry and fiction she has read. She also asked about a few math concepts from the practice test she was unfamiliar with, such as associative property of addition, adding with a base-5 system, and finding the value of similar lines. She is a quick study and seems to understand these concepts at a proficient level now."

"The student and I spent the first half of our session going over essay strategy. This is a part of the test that his mom is most concerned with. The student wrote about 2 essays during the course of our session and I put together a guide for him for the best tips for outlining and writing the essay. We also worked on verbal reasoning and how to sketch out the question to get the best and most correct answer. I have sent him diagnostic tests as homework for the week and assigned some work in his books."

"Today we covered a number of practice questions from the review book. I was pleased to see that the girls got no more than 2 questions wrong each on the 40 question math section that I assigned for homework. We are continuing to refine the skills that the girls have already, and I'm sure that they will continue to improve."

"It was a pleasure meeting the student and his mother this last Wednesday. He is a bright kid - there's no two ways about it. He has a 4.0, lofty academic expectations, and little experience with the standardized test format. In many ways, he is the perfect student for an abbreviated tutoring period. Eight hours feels like the perfect amount of time for him to master the test. We started with the verbal section, which gave him the most trouble in his diagnostic tests. His score went from 75 percent on the first go around to 94 percent on the second. A 10 minute coaching section was the only interim between the massive jump in score. Given his capabilities, I expect similar results on the other sections of the test."

"After introductions, we covered the student's experience on the practice tests she had taken, her goals, and the areas she wanted the most support with. We then worked through practice problems in those target areas-math, quantitative reasoning, and verbal skills (we did not get to language this time, although we did discuss it generally). We talked through the problems and highlighted areas for further practice. Overall, she has excellent reasoning, and she was able to quickly work through problems with minimal difficulty."

"This session we went over the student's reading and mathematics sections from a practice placement exam. We reviewed a reading passage that he appeared to struggle with on the practice exam. He did better in math than with his reading, and we will continue to work on building his verbal skills and vocabulary in future sessions. He completed the section 5 language section of a placement exam and we reviewed. He was given the answers and told to check for understanding for extra practice. At the end of the session, we went though some verbal skills question practice on the platform, working on developing a knowledge of Latin prefixes for his verbal section."

"We covered more math from an assessment exam Practice Exam 1 of the test prep book on how to find the area of a rectangle after subtracting the area of smaller squares inside that rectangle, how to use PEMDAS, and prioritizing left to right when attacking an algebraic expression, how to find the percentage (5%) of large numbers (420), how to translate a word problem into an algebraic expression before trying to solve the algebra problem, how some word problems just appear more difficult than they really are, and more. I left the student with Practice Exam 1 (math section) to do over the week before Saturday. And I talked to his parents about prioritizing test-taking strategies and algebra concepts for him."

"On Monday, the student and I focused on the sorts of math problems that have been slowing her down. We practiced solving for percentages, working through word problems faster, and a few extraneous problem types I wanted to check back in on. She has sped up considerably at solving relative rate problems and is doing better at word problems in general. That being said, she is still taking about twice the time she ought to be to solve most of these questions at the pace of the test. In all likelihood, she will have more than the average amount of time to spend on word problems due to her speed on easier question types, but I'd like to see her move faster. She asked good questions and was able to explain her current strategies and explore ways to improve them with me. I'd like to see her drill basic operations more, to the point that word problems are just a matter of setting up the right equation."

"We continued our work with practice tests in this session, focusing on the verbal. Prior to the student's practice test, I reviewed what strategies he should draw on (prefix and root word knowledge, words with similar meanings, deductive reasoning, elimination, etc.). There were relatively few problems that were challenging. He is definitely improving on taking his time with questions and re-reading the problem. The majority of the incorrect answers were due to unfamiliar vocabulary or misunderstanding the information. I believe he will do very well in this section. We will plan on math and language in the next session."

"We worked on the quantitative reasoning section of the assessment exam and then did review of the test taking strategies and some areas of weakness. He seems to have made a fair amount of progress. At our next session, I will have him take a practice test and see how he does and where we need to spend more time."